China's first tire, was born in today's double money tire company, its name was greater China rubber factory.
In 1928, the rubber factory of greater China was built and put into production.
By 1933, it had grown into four manufacturing plants, three raw material plants and a machine shop.The average daily output of rubber shoes is 19,000 pairs, with 2620 employees, making it the largest enterprise in the national rubber industry.
As production expanded, the factory's founder was ambitious to make tires.
From 1930 to 1933, China imported an average of more than 4,300 cars and imported tires from other countries every year.
Xue Fuji, one of the founders of the greater China rubber factory, sees this with concern.He worries about China's complete dependence on imports.
In a letter to he yingqin, then the defence minister of the republic of China, he said: "if the Pacific Ocean changes, it will cut off [tyre] supplies.At that time without the generation of domestic goods, then our public and private ownership of more than 50,000 cars into the waste...The impact on national defense traffic is huge."
"In view of this, the company has to embrace the purpose of sacrifice, actively in order to seek the improvement of equipment, in order to consider the case, for the country, for the national honor.
In order to accumulate tire production experience, the greater China rubber factory decided to start from the production of tires.
Before this, domestic once had the history of productivity car tire, but once the product comes out, all be crowded by foreign product collapse and close down, since then nobody asks.
In 1932, the rubber factory of greater China invested 200,000 yuan to build a factory, bought a bankrupt Japanese tire enterprise, and added some new equipment, hired Japanese friends to do technical guidance, and finally succeeded in producing "double money" brand tire.
In order to heart tire dream, xue Fuji went to Japan personally, seek the help of friend of rubber industry, send a person to learn tire manufacturing.